And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.

“‘He gave it to be polished, to be grasped in the hand – the sword is sharpened, it is polished – giving it into the hand of the executioner.

As they wail they will lament over you, chanting: “Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre, because they did it for me, declares the sovereign Lord.

They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.

There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Now after you another kingdom will arise, one inferior to yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule in all the earth.

I saw a dream that frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed – these visions of my mind – were terrifying me.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment and the tear will be worse.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’

But Jesus called them and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their boat mending nets.